Of what benefit cooperation with developing countries is in actual fact to the industrialized countries is a question which is receiving increasing attention in the discussions on development policy. In the present economic situation special interest attaches in this context of course to the...

"The flow of goods, services, capital, current payments and other transactions of trade across frontiers … is fundamentally free …" - with these words begins the German Außenwirtschafts-Gesetz - AWG (Foreign Trade Act), Article Number One. After this Law had been passed in 1961, many...